Opinion: Greenville's commendable city government should next tackle growth

Greenville's city government officials have performed in a superior fashion compared with most other medium-sized cities’ governments over a long period.They have exhibited professionalism and integrity in dispensing high-quantity and quality services to residents in relationship to available resources.

Benchmarking Greenville government's performance against the many other cities I have lived in, it’s clear that Greenville residents get high-value services in relationship to their local taxes paid.

While we are not devoid of current problems, these problems are being attacked with strong managerial expertise focused on solving the problems quickly where possible, and mitigating those that prove intractable.

So, it is appropriate at this time of year to give thanks to the members of our city government for their steadfast stewardship on our behalf, and for their commitment to continuous improvement going forward.

A Christmas gift that the city government could give both itself and the citizens would be to ratchet up efforts in 2019 to get greater management control over our rapid growth.

By doing so, they would be helping to sustain our high quality of life, and will be confronted with fewer major and frequently unsolvable problems that result from too much and/or too fast growth.

Dick Taylor

Greenville

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